The Men's 1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from May 6 to 20. The second edition of this competition, held two years before the Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.
Medal table
Medal winners Light Flyweight(– 48 kilograms) Stephen MuchokiKenya Jorge HernándezCuba Armando GuevaraVenezuela Richard SandovalUnited States Flyweight(– 51 kilograms) Henryk ŚrednickiPoland Héctor RamírezCuba Alexander MikhailovSoviet Union Ishi KokiJapan Bantamweight(– 54 kilograms) Adolfo HortaCuba Fazlija ŠaćirovićYugoslavia Stephan FörsterEast Germany Chung Kim ChilSouth Korea Featherweight(– 57 kilograms) Ángel HerreraCuba Bratislav RistićYugoslavia Roman GotfrydPoland Antonio EsparragozaVenezuela Lightweight(– 60 kilograms) Davidson AndehNigeria Vladimir SorokinSoviet Union René WellerWest Germany Lutz KäsebierEast Germany Light Welterweight(– 63,5 kilograms) Valery LvovSoviet Union Memet BogujevciYugoslavia Jean-Claude RuizFrance Karl-Heinz KrügerEast Germany Welterweight(– 67 kilograms) Valery RachkovSoviet Union Miodrag PerunovićYugoslavia Roosevelt GreenUnited States Ernst MüllerWest Germany Light Middleweight(– 71 kilograms) Viktor SavchenkoSoviet Union Luis MartínezCuba Jerzy RybickiPoland Ilya IlyevBulgaria Middleweight(– 75 kilograms) José Gómez MustelierCuba Tarmo UusivirtaFinland Slobodan KačarYugoslavia Ilya AngelovBulgaria Light Heavyweight(– 81 kilograms) Sixto SoriaCuba Tadija KačarYugoslavia Nikolay ErofyeevSoviet Union Herbert BauchEast Germany Heavyweight(> 81 kilograms) Teófilo StevensonCuba Dragomir VujkovićYugoslavia Carlos RiveraVenezuela Jürgen FanghänelEast Germany
External links Results on Amateur Boxing